Marketing TextThe TOUAREG - TOUrism PlAtform for euRopean Educational Games - has the aim to respond to the existing needs and priorities of improving, sustaining and reinforcing the organisational, social and communication competences and skills. The TOUAREG project starts from the ascertainment that throughout Europe there is a growing need for competences development in the tourism sector, since this sector has witnessed a spectacular transformation over recent years.

SummaryThe TOUAREG project is primarily targeted to less qualified workers in tourism sector and provides an innovative approach to support the development organisational, social and communication skills as well as the development of strategies for personal and professional development. In doing so less qualified workers in tourism sector can find available opportunities and enhance their ability to maintain/change job position within or to re-enter into an increasingly complex and demanding global labour market. In other words they are better able to act, participate and intervene in the life-long learning opportunities and the knowledge society.Both the challenge and the innovative dimension of the TOUAREG project are based on the adoption of Game Based Learning (GBL) as a “serious” and “effective” learning and training method to improve organisational, social and communication skills. Although the use of simulation games for improving technical skills is quite widespread in vocational training sector other typologies of game are rarely adopted of other for improving core skills and furthermore generally speaking the majority of games are targeted to high-qualified professionals or high school students.The TOUAREG proposal intends to adapt and contextualise a set of micro-modules for core skills development and improvement to the Tourism sector and embed them in an eLearning game environment in order to allow less qualified workers to: • recognise their potential and existing competences and knowledge; • improve social and transversal skills (internationally comparable and acknowledged) • experiment with different “non traditional” paths and methods for learning and to include in their e-portfolio; • develop a learner identity and identify him/herself as member of a learning community.Furthermore, within the project a system for identifying, recognising and evaluating organisational, communication and social competences will be furthermore developed and tested. The primary targeted group that project addresses are less qualified workers in the tourism sector (such as: waiters, cleaners, kitchen staff, receptionist in small hotels).

DescriptionThe TOUAREG proposal intends to innovate training and learning processes and practices in vocational training and in particular in the tourism training sector by introducing game- based learning (GBL) approach as a “serious”, “proper”, and “effective” method for key skills and competences development. In particular the TOUAREG project has the following objectives:• To foster and support the development of social, communication and organisational skills in less qualified workers in order to enhance their availability to maintain/change job position within or to re-enter into an increasingly complex and demanding global labour market• To promote and support the usage of game based learning in vocational training sector • To enhance the use and the familiarity of ICT for working, living and prevent social exclusion from the Knowledge Society• To support the recognition and evaluation of social, communication and organisational skills acquired in formal, non formal and informal scenarios • To provide the VET system with a set of online resources (online micro-modules, game learning environment) immediately scalable, applicable and transferable in training courses for initial and continuous professional development.Organisation, social and communication skills are the broad, transferable skills that help to develop the main capabilities people need to be full, active and responsible members of society. Researches highlighted the importance of both, these skills themselves and the ability to transfer them in a constantly changing environment where workers have to be able to adapt to new ways of working. The TOUAREG project is definitively consistent with the European priorities of tourism policy, since it promotes the involvement of stakeholders, the use of new technologies and methods in the tourism training sector, the sustainable professional development of tourism sector human resources through training being coherently in line with the objectives of the Leonardo Da Vinci programme

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Product informationThe TOUAREG proposal intends to adapt and contextualise a set of micro-modules for core skills development and improvement to the Tourism sector and embed them in an eLearning game environment in order to allow less qualified workers to: • recognise their potential and existing competences and knowledge; • improve social and transversal skills (internationally comparable and acknowledged) • experiment with different “non traditional” paths and methods for learning and to include in their e-portfolio; • develop a learner identity and identify him/herself as member of a learning community.Furthermore, within the project a system for identifying, recognising and evaluating organisational, communication and social competences will be furthermore developed and tested. The primary targeted group that project addresses are less qualified workers in the tourism sector (such as: waiters, cleaners, kitchen staff, receptionist in small hotels). Nevertheless, it has to be underlined that the outputs of the project are designed to be easily transferable and applicable to a broad category of “lower qualified” individuals in vocational training sector as a whole

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